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BRITAIN’S TELEGRAPH NEWSPAPER has apologised and paid damages to US First Lady Melania Trump after publishing an article it says contains many false statements.
The newspaper said today it apologises “unreservedly” to Mrs Trump and her family for any embarrassment caused by the content of a cover story published 19 January in the newspaper’s weekly magazine supplement.
“As a mark of our regret we have agreed to pay Mrs Trump substantial damages as well as her legal costs,” The Telegraph said. The newspaper did not disclose the size of the settlement with Mrs Trump.
The Telegraph said it falsely characterised Mrs Trump’s father’s personality, falsely reported the reasons she left an architecture program, and falsely reported her career as a model was unsuccessful before she met Donald Trump.
“We accept that Mrs Trump was a successful professional model in her own right before she met her husband and obtained her own modelling work without his assistance,” the newspaper said, also acknowledging it had incorrectly reported the year when the couple first met.
The claim that Mrs Trump cried on election night is also false.
It also retracted the statement that Melania Trump’s father, mother and sister had relocated to New York in 2005 to live in buildings owned by Trump.
The Telegraph is one of Britain’s leading broadsheet newspapers and is traditionally aligned with the Conservative Party.
It is not the first time Melania has successfully challenged the British press. She received damages and an apology from the Daily Mail in 2017 after bringing a libel action against the popular tabloid.
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Media is gone toxic!
@John Smith: Yeah, right wing media sucks.
@Dave Thomas: they are all selling outrage! Don’t get sucked into it!
@John Smith: and toxifying society too. Read the crap on every article. So negative and anti-establishment
I have never seen a time where the World Media have been so corrupt. It’s impossible to believe a printed word these days. All they do these days is promote they’re own agenda as fact. They are a shadow of what they should be m
@Mairtin Antaine O Conaill: The media aren’t corrupt! What are ya on about? What alt-right website are you getting this from?
@Shane Dignam: you should try opening ur eyes. Look at their disgusting behaviour over the Covington Catholic school recently. 1 of many stunning inaccuracies.
@Vote4Pedro: did you watch the unedited video… Those kids are a holes
@Dave Thomas: yes they are Dave, but they’re not white supremacist racists as was reported by the media.
@Dave Thomas: Yeah, that why USA today and many others are being sued for libel.
@Vote4Pedro: Sorry Pedro, I thought you would have detected the sarcasm.
@Mairtin Antaine O Conaill: Oh really? Why do they dress up as Black Face at their school basketball games then? https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/covington-catholic-black-paint/
@Orla Smith: That’s already been debunked and Snopes has been widely criticised for getting the facts wrong on the native American’s claims of being a Vietnam vet. Yawn
@PC Principal: No it hasn’t.
@Orla Smith: resorting to childish responses now Orla?
@Orla Smith: I wouldn’t rely
On Snopes…
@Shane Dignam: I got to the part where he said David essentially said “shh it’s a secret” when he actually said that he was legally prohibited from talking about some things due to the terms of his divorce settlement. You have any issues with that? Think those two are interchangeable?
@Shane Dignam: my bad shane
Its a good thing her husband is really good looking or she would have never married him in a million years.
@George Weener: some women like money and status. Shallow creatures
@George Weener: It’s a good thing she’s really good looking too because he would never have married her in a million years.. potatoe potato
@Toby Fish: Ho.
The press got away with it for years about time they were brought to account look at what murdochs newspapers did to innocent people and he got away with it
The Journal might soon have to pay damages after your articles about the Covington Catholic school kids.
@Alternative for Ireland: Why would they, for reporting the truth?
She needs that Substantial sum alright, poor woman. She wasnt slow to sue. Cut from the same cloth as himself.
@Margate: true – that said it’s a slippery slope of papers are just allowed make up stuff and go completely unchallenged and not be held accountable or pay a price for false reporting – better if they were fined and the money put to good use instead of lining the wallets of billionaires but the point remains – they need to fact check and hold journalists to some standards in media outlets and often this only happens if there are consequences
@Margate: Ya those poor honest newspapers should never be held accountable for printing any old crap. Good for her.
@Margate: so the media should be allowed make up and print lies whenever they like?
@Mairtin Antaine O Conaill: next, CNN and Co. Suing false fake news sites will hit them where it hurts. You know something corrupt when CNN have a camera crew waiting outside Rodger Stones house before the FBI even show up.
@Dave Hammond: I dislike her but am glad to see this happen.
@Margate: as is her right & anyone else’s right if your slandered by the media
@Paul Darby: they had cameras outside a few houses and got lucky.
@Margate: hardly the point now is it.
@David: Eh? What is ‘the’ point? Or should i say ‘ your’ point?
@Luke Lee: You are obviously a staunch admirer of the Trumps, Fair play to you! Now, when Hubbie next takes- unceremoniously, ungraciously, unbecoming of a Usa President- toTwitter-ing around the world and randomly shooting his mouth off, lets see WHO is exploiting the Media???
@Margate: Huh?
@Margate:
Just because you dont like her husband does not allow you to print lies about her or her parents and sister.
@Luke Lee: Confused? Sounds like, keep up. Watching for Melanie’s ‘ substantial sum’ being donated to charitable cause(s).
That must be the world’s quickest liable settlement. Usually it takes years.
@John Horan: liable?
If you publish a lie (s) which is read and believed by millions of people you should pay the highest appropriate penalty in retribution to who you have hurt.
What no one knows, or can ever know, is how many people read the initial article and believed it and will not read the apology. One person is too much.
I don’t like the Mrs. Trump or her husband but the principle applies to all who have been hurt by lazy journalism.
I Really Don’t Care.
@Francis Mc Carthy: then don’t comment Doh
@tennis nut: it’s on my jacket that i’m wearing,nut
@tennis nut: Frank’s comment is a play on the Slovenians own expression of disgust of immigrants. Remember the Jacket she wore when visiting the asylum seekers? “I don’t really, do you? Disgusting mind, face ok. First Lady hahaha
@James Kearney: I thought she wore the jacket to send a message to the media but your assertion is much better. While visiting children at a shelter she decided to send a message that she hates immigrants. Got it now.
So Melania, what first attracted you to the Billionaire Donald?
@DJ François: $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
More Fake News from the Right-Wing media.
@Orla Smith: CRINGE
@Orla Smith: wot u on about they told lies. Get off donkey and open ur eyes. Going around with the emblem of the party of slavery as ur profile pic u should be ashamed. This is being deemed as toxic good heavens 8.1. I better keep typing nice positive words to trim down the rating.7.7.
@Vote4Pedro: Glad to see the English lessons are coming on a bit, a few more years and we might be able to decipher your comments.
@Orla Smith: oh u got me there!! Decipher this: why have u the emblem of a party which fought a war to keep their slaves on ur Twitter profile? Plus a picture of a woman who said that blacks all look alike.
It’s too late for that lip service. The news media needs to be taken down.
I would go to jail sooner than give any one of of the “TRUMPMAFIA” 1 PENNY
She’ll be glad of the few bob
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